Jo Tuckman

Jo Tuckman has been working as a freelance correspondent based in Mexico since she moved there in 2000 in anticipation of the fall of 71 years of one party rule. Before that she worked as a staff reporter and editor in the Iberia bureau of a major international news agency. She first started working as a journalist in the mid 90s covering the end of the Central American civil wars. Prior to that she worked in human rights, following on from a masters degree in Latin American Studies and an undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology

Last year’s wave of unaccompanied children migrating to the US helped spark a crackdown in Mexico, forcing people to take alternative routes north as they face armed robbers, corrupt officials and sexual violence

As first anniversary into killing and disappearance of 43 students in Guerrero approaches, experts speculate corrupt police were recovering heroin or money that local drug gang stashed inside mysterious ‘fifth bus’

In a country where national television is accused of being a vehicle of society’s elite, Torres took to YouTube armed with satire and a hope of spurring the young middle class: ‘We’re tired of the old generation being all corrupt and full of shit’